The Phica case opened a window on an entire universe. Almost 800,000 usersa chronology more than 20 years long in which they were collected millions of content. An all -Italian universe, away from the laps of Great brand of pornography. On Fanpage.it, however, we showed how there was much more. A system of extortion, managed with anonymous profiles on Telegram. And a network with other platforms where the volume of business was much bigger.
One of the portals related to Phica was Girls for sale. A historic site, even older than Phica. From the first analyzes we did with Wayback Machine Girls for sale, shortened Riv, is active from February 2005. Phica would only be born in August. Riv specializes in Cam Girlgirls who perform in the room in exchange for money. A fairly widespread form of pornography Before the arrival of Onlyfans.
The connection that passes from girls for sale in Phica
The connections between Phica and girls for sale there are manystarting from an subdomain: Webcam.phica.net. He has the same girl’s services for sale, the same email for the management of user privacy but is an subdomain of the Phica Forum, with which he also shares the SSL documenta sort of identity document.
Phica case, Roberto Maggio to Fanpage.it: “That forum was just an affiliate: I deal with anything else”
The story of Riv starts from afar and can be found on a book by his own author. On Amazon for 16.50 euros You can buy the book Girls invented: how I revolutionized the video chat industry for adults. 148 pages that tell the story of the site.
The book seems self -published. On Amazon the release date is set at 2021. The author is Trovart Majacefa name behind which there are not many other traces on the web. The payments of some platforms related to Phica and Rive were managed by Roberto Maggio, an entrepreneur with base between Sofia and Dubai. However he has already explained to Do not be linked to the property of Phica: “I have no property bonds with Phica.eu. My name was mentioned because Hydra together with Atelier manages the payment systems of an external site to which Phica postponed. Our nursing focuses exclusively on transition, not on content”.
What’s in the book on the story of Riv
The story of Riv is of course an agiography of the site. The author paints himself as one Steve Jobs of pornography which moves from one intuition to another by opening visionary business and creating companies with Star Turnful. We read: “I confess: I am the manager of one of the most important erotic chat platforms with a total monthly business volume to five zeros”.
Trovert, we keep this as a name, says we started soon make money with computer scienceor rather piracy. Already in the middle school he says he has set up a Business linked to copied video games. He stopped floppy disk on which he copied the best known titles around. The first payment? A second -hand porn newspaper.
Years later he starts working for a site managed by another person. We are in the internet prehistory. It was a site that offered the possibility of organizing erotic calls with the telephone dialect system. Old and also discreetly expensive technology. There was not only erotic or chat telephony, there were even entertainment services for the elderly alone, or the “Goodnight fairy tales” With advertisements that incited children to compose these numbers that cost several euros per minute and finally the inevitable fortune tellers for housewives
The success with the service of Le Iene
There are not many dates in the book. The contours of the stories are unclear. But at a certain point there is a date that is made to coincide with the actual success of RIV. In the book it is explained that the March 26, 2007 The journalist Andrea Pellizzari Delle Iene has dedicated a service to the world of Cam Girl showing the RIV website and its operation.
The service exists but probably the date of its airing is wrong. In the iene archive he dates back to 2006. Even looking at the Google Trends historian you can see very well that the peak of research In the history of the site it is reached in the first half of 2006. To understand the volume of business, just see the Rates of Cam Girl.
In his test Pellizzari spends about 150 euros for a call of about ten minutes with chamber and telephone. Adjusted with inflation would be about 211 euros of now. The data was detected with the portal dedicated to the inflation of Istat. A figure to be diverted more or less halfway between the girl in the room and the platform.
The book continues with some anecdotestories of customers and professionals in the room and considerations of various types. Nothing particularly new. In the chapter “a zero but clean business” writes: “The real problem is that in this country you can do everything, it does not matter if legal or illegal, if immoral or sacred, the import is to give an idea of the facade that can be presented”.
